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Monday, January 31, 2011

Both the New York Times and Ha'aretz from Israel report that Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the Muslim Brotherhood have reached rapproachment on forming a national unity government, broad based, to include everybody but current Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's National Democratic Party.

From Ha'aretz:

"I have been authorized -- mandated -- by the people who organized these demonstrations and many other parties to agree on a national unity government," (ElBaradei) told CNN.

The NYT notes that ElBaradei is not afraid to call out the Obama Administration for continuing to prop up Mubarak.

“It’s better for President Obama not to appear that he is the last one to say to President Mubarak, it’s time for you to go,” Dr. ElBaradei said.

Given how he refused to sign off on BushCo bullshit in Iraq, while running the IAEA, this should be of no surprise.

It is seeming more and more clear that the police aren't strongly in Mubarak's corner. The military, with hardware largely paid for by the U.S., still seems strong for the moment. But, remember, Nicholas II lost the gendarmes first, then the military, in 1917.

So, too, did a certain Reza Pahlavi in 1979. Will Mubarak's path follow the late Shah of Iran's, who, ironically, lived his last days in Egypt, which led the Muslim Brotherhood to assassinate Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, which put Mubarak in power?

Former President Jimmy Carter, who is certainly in a position to remember Iran and the Shah's fall in 1979, agrees that Mubarak is eventually likely to go.

And, speaking of that, will ElBaradei pull this off? Or, will Mubarak try to co-opt him, to make him, in essence, Egypt's Shapour Bakhtiar? I doubt ElBaradei can be co-opted. If we were talking about former UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, that would be different. Indeed, that might be Mubarak's next move.

And, Ross Douthat completes a circle of sorts by reminding us that the U.S.'s continued propping up of Mubarak was surely a major factor in 9/11. Remember, mastermind Mohamed Atta, among others, was Egyptian.

However, it is possible that ElBaradie could be undercut by the Brotherhood at some point, and become Egypt's equivalent of Abolhassan Banisadr.

Meanwhile, here's more on Omar Suleman, the thuggish CIA pal that Mjbarak has lined up to replace him, it seems.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

While we focus almost exclusively on fire
and EMS here, this is one of those days that dramatic video involving
law enforcement from two separate parts of the country is front and
center.

The video above is today’s botched bank
robbery in Maryland. Police from Prince George’s County and Takoma Park
quickly found themselves face to face with the gunman walking out the
door of the bank holding a female hostage. She was able to break free
when the robber was tripped up by a snow bank. It gave police a chance
to shoot the gunman. He died. A Prince George’s County Police officer
was wounded in the leg, apparently from a bullet that ricocheted.

TV stations in the Washington area were in
the breaking news mode as this all happened. It was one of those
moments where someone being shot and killed was seen live on
television. Since then the news operations, as far as we can tell, are
only showing the edited chopper video on the air. It stops before the
gunman falls to the ground. The exception is WTTG-TV, which has put the
complete raw video on its website. Click here for that video.

The other video is from the shootout
inside a Detroit police station five days ago. It shows Lamar Moore
entering the Northwest District on January 23 and ambushing the
officers. Moore was killed in this gun battle and four police officers
are recovering from their wounds. The 68 second video, showing two
camera angles, was released today by the Detroit Police Department.

The video opens with a message from Police
Chief Ralph Godbee. Chief Godbee explains the decision to release this
video. The chief called it a commitment to transparency and to
show citizens the heroism of his officers. The chief also believes it
will of help in the training of police officers.

Below is some of the police radio traffic during the shootout that was posted on YouTube by FirefighterDispatch.

In one view Cmdr. Brian Davis is
seen walking up the the desk, where Modreci Draper, owner of a shoe
repair business who had come to the station to shine officers’ shoes,
is talking to Officer David Anderson.

In the camera view at the door, Moore is seen walking into
the building, but a gun is not visible. Then you can see him walk close
to the desk.

Davis is talking to Sgt. Ray Saati, with his back initially
turned to Moore. Draper leans down, wiping salt from Anderson’s shoes,
he told the Free Press Thursday. Suddenly, there is a blast and
Anderson falls away into a corridor, with only his feet visible in the
frame.

Moore shoots down another hallway, where Sgt.
Carrie Schulz is shot in her bullet-proof vest. From that corridor,
Sgts. Mike Ingels and James Kirkland begin shooting at Moore, who backs
up, according to police.

Behind the desk, Davis takes Saati’s gun and he and Officer
Theodore Jackson begin shooting over the desk at Moore, who hurls
himself over the counter.

Moore moves toward Davis, who extends his right arm,
shooting at point-blank range with the gunman. Moore shoots and hits
Davis’ hand and Davis is also hit in the back. He takes cover, while
Moore moves to the other side of the desk area. At this point,
according to police, Moore is mortally wounded.

Davis throws a trash can at Moore, who staggers and falls into chairs.

Los Angeles (CNN) -- A police officer in Los Angeles who claimed
he was shot while patrolling near a high school has now been arrested
for making up the story, authorities said.

Officer Jeff Stenroos of the Los Angeles Unified School District Police
Department had said he was shot in the chest on January 19 in the west
San Fernando Valley. He said the shooting happened when he got out of
his squad car to check on a man peering into parked vehicles near the
El Camino High School.

The alleged shooting prompted an hours-long lockdown of several schools as police scoured the area looking for the shooter.

In the following days, authorities released a sketch of the alleged gunman, and the reward for information grew to $100,000.

But Thursday night, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Stenroos
had been arrested on a felony count of filing a false police report.

"The current state of the investigation refutes Stenroos' initial
account of the incident and we are now certain that there is no
outstanding suspect in this shooting," he said in a statement.

A U.S. missionary working in Mexico who brought his mortally wounded
wife to the border told authorities in the United States that gunmen in
a pickup truck shot her in the head, police in Texas say. Nancy Davis,
59, died in a South Texas hospital Wednesday about 90 minutes after her
husband drove the couple's truck against traffic across the Pharr
International Bridge, according to a statement issued by the Pharr
Police Department. The husband relayed to Texas authorities and U.S.
Customs agents a frantic episode of the couple being fired upon in
Mexico and then flooring their truck at top speed to border. Police
described the couple as missionaries who travel extensively into
Mexico. The scene echoed one described four months ago by an American
tourist, who said her husband was gunned down by Mexican pirates on a
border lake as the couple tried fleeing on Jet Skis...more

And denounces those who oppose Obama's agenda as racists. FromPolitico:

Speaking
to Arab television network Alhurra, Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) said
Republicans made big gains in November in part because “a lot of people
in this country … don’t want to be governed by an African-American.”

Even
more objectionable to some Americans, he said, is that Obama is a black
president “who is inclusive, who is liberal, who wants to spend money
on everyone and who wants to reach out to include everyone in our
society — that’s a basic philosophical clash.”

Moran’s remarks came Tuesday in an interview conducted after Obama delivered his State of the Union speech. Democrats, Moran
said, lost for “the same reason the Civil War Happened in the United
States … the Southern states, particularly the slaveholding states,
didn’t want to see a president who was opposed to slavery.” Virginia,
of course, is one of those Southern, formerly slaveholding states....

Thus, Moran is promoting white guilt.

The
Civil War is over. Sure, racism still exists in the United States.
There's no denying that fact. But to attribute the results of the 2010
elections exclusively to racism is inaccurate and denial of the will of
the American people as they exercised that will at the ballot box last
November. Besides, the district from which Moran runs for office is
overwhelmingly white (liberal), and Democrat Moran got re-elected. Or
maybe Moran has decided that Virginia, particularly Northern Virginia
is not part of the South - never mind that slaves were indeed held in
bondage here in Northern Virginia.

And what the hell is Moran doing talking to Arab television, anyway? Following Obama's lead, I suppose. Obama spoke with al-Arabiya in one of his first interviews after taking office in January 2009.

Here
in Northern Virginia, Congressman Moran sometimes runs for office
without opposition. And when an opponent does challenge Moran for that
particular seat in Congress, Moran trounces him. Never mind Moran's
frequent off-the-cuff remarks:

Moran has gotten in trouble for his off-the-cuff remarks in the past. In
2007, he alleged that the “extraordinarily powerful” pro-Israel lobby
played a major role in promoting the U.S. war in Iraq. A strong
supporter of his district’s Muslim community, Moran faced
criticism from Jewish groups in 2003 for saying that then-Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon was visiting Washington “probably seeking a
warrant from President Bush to kill at will with weapons we’ve paid
for.”

Moran is standing by his recent statements about Obama and racist America.

Taxpayers got the short end of the stick on Thursday when Phil Angelides, Democratic chairman of the taxpayer-funded Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, released the panel's final report on the causes of the Great Recession of 2008.

Rather than provide the bipartisan view of the origins of the financial
crisis, as mandated by Congress, the panel split along partisan lines
because of Angelides' refusal to incorporate the views of Republican members. So, instead of one consensus report, there are three competing assessments (that of the majority, a minority report signed by three Republican members, and an individual dissent by Commissioner Peter Wallison).

Commissioner Douglas Holtz-Eakin told The Examiner that the Republican commissioners would provide edits to drafts of the report,
only to have returned new drafts that still didn't reflect their
changes, only "to be asked at the last minute to sign off." Vice
Chairman Bill Thomas, former chairman of the House Ways and Means
Committee, told The Examiner that he was exasperated by such tactics:
"I was not aware that the material we thought had been cooperatively
agreed to wasn't in [thereport ] because it didn't pass muster." In
fact, Thomas said, Angelides "went through by himself and made changes
which were not known until the document was presented to the commission." Holtz-Eakin added that "the fact that we have to guess at what the process [to write the report] was shows you exactly the problem with the commission."

More than 700 interviews were conducted by FCIC staff, most of which
had no input from commissioners on the questions to be asked. In fact,
the commissioners had no idea many of them were happening at all,
having not been invited to sit in on important meetings such as those
with executives of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or with
Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Larry Summers. The obstructions
didn't stop there, either. A commission staff member who requested
anonymity told The Examiner that interactions with commissioners were
rare. Commissioners, in turn, spoke of the difficulty of not having
access to staffers.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Joan
Rivers may have outlived her time.On the Howard
Stern radio show, Rivers noted that she was going to use a joke
onstage, but chose to self-censor, primarily because she knew it would be
offensive to African Americans.

But, of course, when Stern asked her to
tell the joke, she said it on national radio, referring to First Lady
Michelle Obama's sense of style:

"We used to have Jackie O," Rivers said, "now we have
Blackie O!"

Stern and Rivers then spent their time complaining
about how everything's off limits, when it comes to African
Americans.

Apparently, they both seemed disappointed about not
being able to use racially disrespectful rhetoric that we've been forced to
listen to for the past 400 years.

Stern's co-host, Robin
Quivers, didn't have much to say either, but then again, that seems to
be the role of the trusty black sidekick these days: to give a racial pass when
someone says something that might be deemed offensive (perhaps we can call this
the "I have black friends" defense).

Don
Imus of the "nappy-headed-ho" fame also has a black co-host, who
is, of course, a comedian, since black people are so much more fun when they
make everyone laugh.

In all seriousness, though, Rivers did try to squash
some of the criticism of her joke by saying that she wouldn't be offended if
someone were to refer to her as "Jewie O."

The problem with that
comparison is that "blackie" is an incredibly derogatory term with indisputable
roots in racial degradation.

It is similar to referring to black
people as monkeys, showing us eating watermelon or calling us the
N-word.

Part of me feels sorry for Rivers.

She grew up at a time
when offending black people was simply not a big deal. She gets one plastic
surgery after another to hold on to the youth that is slipping through her
fingers, and she's as persistent as any entertainer when it comes to maintaining
her relevance.

I actually respect her, find her to be very funny and
don't consider her words to be malicious, but one thing that Rivers has to
understand is that if your goal is to remain truly hip and relevant, you have to
realize that America is slowly working to move beyond its racist
past.

Calling the First Lady of the United States "blackie" only makes
Rivers look like an entertainment dinosaur, which is the opposite of what she's
trying to be.

Myth 1: Single black moms have low-incomes:
The ‘single black mom’ is most often portrayed as struggling and
welfare-bound. She is not self-sufficient and because of this her
children suffer.

Truth: Until you’ve seen or
heard the reality of the situation with your own eyes and ears, reserve
judgment. Many single, black mothers manage to maintain excellent jobs
which allows them to support themselves, their children and anyone else
she feels so inclined to bless.

Myth 2: A single Black mom raises delinquent children:
Rarely does the media show a single black mother whose children can ‘do
right.’ The child of a single Black mom is often portrayed as leading a
doomed life filled with drugs, run-ins with the law, and illegitimate
children.

Truth: Who among us doesn’t
personally know someone who consistently overcomes obstacles, triumphs
over any task and just so happened to be raised by a single mother.
There are thousands. Never underestimate a black woman on a mission to
raise a strong, successful child. Neither one of them can be stopped.

Myth 3: The single Black mom is just a ‘baby mama’:
Most often, the assumption is that a single Black mom is and will
always be a ‘baby mama’. She was not and will never be married and she
is likely to continue to have children out of wedlock.

Truth:
Many black women who have children out of wedlock do eventually marry
the father of their children. When you have children with someone, you
two will always share something and it’s difficult to walk away from
that. Even if the mother and father of that particular child never get
married, their situation may be beyond our understanding. The couple
may not believe in a formalized, legal commitment, or more frequently
the mother will find another man to marry.

Myth 4: Single Black moms are bad role models:
Because they don’t have the “normal” family unit—mom, dad, and
baby—many people assume that they are setting a poor example for their
children and that their children are destined to do the same.

Truth:
Single mothers can often serve as some of the best role models for
their children. In any parenting situation, if the mother is honest,
the child can learn from her mistakes, even if becoming a single mother
wasn’t one of them. Portraits of single, black mothers often fail to
include the possibility of death. Besides that, there are several
single mothers who raise their children, obtain degrees, and serve as
an inspiration for their children as well as others in their
communities.

Myth 5: The father isn’t involved:
When you’re a single Black mom—there is always the assumption that your
child simply doesn’t have a father. As though, the child was just a
product of some careless decision void of vows, love, or relationship.

Truth:
There are countless examples of parents who aren’t together as a
couple, but manage to stand as a united front when it comes to their
children. If the parents are still together as a couple there are even
more opportunities for him to bond with his children. Regardless of the
situation there have always been black men who are invested in the
rearing and nurturing of their little ones. This false assumption
reflects poorly not just on black women but black men as well. Click here for more

Twenty-five
years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight,
and all seven of its crew members perished. It was one of the moments, like the
JFK assassination and the 9/11 attacks, which we always remember where we were
and what we did in the aftermath of learning the news.

At the
time, I was a State House reporter for The
News Tribune, and what I remember vividly was the Associated Press taping
photos on the walls outside its bureau office – photos of the launch, the crowd
cheering the takeoff, and then the smoke plume from the falling aircraft. It
was long before the days when the Internet brought breaking news, photos and
videos to our computers and telephones. Later in the day, I spoke with members
of New Jersey’s Congressional delegation for a sidebar on the state’s reaction
to the tragedy.

Over the
years, the Challenger disaster became part of a speechwriting lesson I taught
as part of a public relations course at Mercer County Community College. I
would ask my students to put themselves in the place of Peggy Noonan, who wrote
the speech that President Reagan delivered to the nation the evening of the
Challenger disaster. Then, after they explained how they would go about
preparing the President’s remarks, I would explain the steps that Noonan took,
as described in her book What I Saw at
the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era.

Noonan
made the speech personal by making sure the President mentioned the names of
all seven crew members. She made sure he spoke directly to children because so
many had been in school watching the shuttle’s launch and explosion on
television and because a school teacher had been among the seven astronauts.
Noonan also included words reassuring the public that, despite the tragedy, the
U.S. would continue to move forward with its space program.

Years
later in 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas on its
way back to earth, I was working as Deputy Communications Director for Governor
McGreevey. It was a Saturday morning, and as I was watching the initial
television reports, something clicked in my head and I realized the Governor
was going to need a statement.

I quickly
drafted something and got it to the Governor, who was preparing for his annual
budget address. After a few tweaks, we were done. The statement went out, and
in a matter of minutes, it was being read on TV as part of the coverage.

The short
statement was a far cry from the classic speech that Noonan crafted. But
knowing how she went about her task on that fateful day in 1986 made my job a
little bit easier when another space shuttle tragedy took place 17 years later.

# # #

Richard A. Lee is
Communications Director of the Hall
Institute. A former State House reporter and Deputy Communications
Director for the Governor, he also teaches courses in media, politics and
government at Rutgers University, where he is completing work on a Ph.D. in
media studies. Read more of Rich’s columns at richleeonline and
follow him on Twitter.

The Hill:
A split between prominent Republicans emerged Thursday over whether Congress should allow states to declare bankruptcy.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) wrote in the Los Angeles
Times that Congress should authorize a new law allowing states to
declare bankruptcy, a move that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
(R-Va.) has derided as a “bailout of the states.”

Gingrich, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential
nomination in 2012, wrote the op-ed with another prominent Republican,
former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the brother of former President George W.
Bush.

“The new Congress has the opportunity to prepare a fair, orderly,
predictable and lawful approach to help struggling state governments
address their financial challenges without resorting to wasteful
bailouts,” Gingrich and Bush wrote. “This approach begins with a new
chapter in the federal Bankruptcy Code that provides for voluntary
bankruptcy by states, a proven option already available to all cities
and towns across America.”
Gingrich has previously floated the idea of state bankruptcy, but
publicly pushed the option again after Cantor all but ruled it out
earlier this week. That Bush signed onto the article could add
significant heft to the option among conservatives. Sen. John Cornyn
(R-Texas) flagged the article on his Twitter account on Thursday.
“I think some … have mentioned this Chapter 9 equivalent for states
is somehow going to stave off some kind of federal bailout — we don’t
need that to stave off a federal bailout. There will be no bailout of
the states,” Cantor told reporters earlier this week. “States can deal
with this, and have the ability to do so on their own.”

At issue are the massive amounts of debt that some state have
accrued after years of running deficits. The existing state debts are
only exacerbated by massive liabilities in state pension accounts in
coming years, which have made it difficult for states to meet their
obligations.

A new bankruptcy law would allow states to enter court protection to
help reorganize their finances. The New York Times has reported on the
political sensitivities surrounding the situation, and most lawmakers
have been careful not to stake out positions on the possible solution.

Gingrich was more pointed, however, and it is notable his op-ed ran
in a newspaper in California, the state facing perhaps the most intense
budget crisis.

“Federal bailouts must come to an end. Federal taxpayers in states
that balance their budgets should not have to bail out the
irresponsible, pandering politicians who cannot balance their budgets,”
Gingrich and Bush wrote. “Congress must allow a safe, orderly way under
federal bankruptcy law for states to reorganize their finances.”

Republican governors like Chris Christie in New Jersey have scored
political points for taking on local unions and seeking concessions in
the state’s pension liabilities. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, also a
Republican, has sought similar reforms, as have some new Democratic
governors. These moves have been met with stiff resistance by labor
unions that represent state and municipal employees, who worry their
workers will be shortchanged by state budget crunches.

WASHINGTON—The
federal budget deficit will reach a record of nearly $1.5 trillion in
2011 due to the weak economy, higher spending and fresh tax cuts,
congressional budget analysts said, in a stark warning that will drive
the growing battle over government spending and taxation.

At
that size, the deficit—up from $1.29 trillion in 2010—would be roughly
$60 billion more than the White House projected last summer, the
nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday. Last year's
tax-cut package alone will add roughly $400 billion to the deficit, the
CBO said. As a percentage of the nation's economic output, the 9.8%
deficit would be the second-largest since World War II, behind only the
10% level in 2009.

The grim outlook landed a day after President
Barack Obama outlined plans to push for new spending that he said would
help keep the U.S. globally competitive in his State of the Union
speech, and the data could complicate that effort. Republicans have
dismissed the president's plans as ignoring the more pressing need to
reduce the deficit.

Wednesday, the battle lines sharpened. "This
report is a reflection of the gross mismanagement of our nation's
finances," said Rep. Tom Price (R., Ga.). "It should make every
American think twice about the latest calls by the president to
increase spending at a time when Washington can clearly not afford to
pay its bills."

Melo, who has been the talk of the NBA as of late, is headed to his
fourth All-Star Game, and third as a starter. With all the drama he's
doing through, and the boos he's been receiving at home, in Denver,
he's just happy to be chosen.

"It feels good especially at the time with everything going on,"
Anthony told NBA.com of his support. "I've been able to stay focused
and it feels good that the fans recognize that. I appreciate it."

Kobe has been voted as a starter 13 times now -- only Jerry West,
Karl Malone and Shaquille O'Neal, with 14 straight nods each, have more
-- and this season is the leading vote-getter.

Paul will go into his fourth game, and second start, and rightfully
so. He's currently third in the league in assists and first in steals.

Durant is a certified star in the league now, and he's only 22. He
made his first All-Star Game last season, and this year, led all West
forwards in voting. Durant is also leading all NBA players in scoring,
averaging 28.1 points a game.

As for Yao, well, it's his eighth starting All-Star selection, but
he won't play for the second time, due to problems with his feet. Right
now, his return is iffy, at best. NBA.com says Pau Gasol, Tim Duncan,
and Denver's Nene couple fill out the spot -- the choice is at
commissioner Stern's discretion.

Orlando Magic center, Dwight Howard, is the second leading
vote-getter overall, behind Kobe, and first in the East, earning
2,099,204 votes. It's his fifth year as an All-Star.

"It's a great honor and I thank the fans for voting for me," Howard
said. "It means a lot to be to be a guy that the fans voted for. It's
the best when the fans are voting for you. That's the highest praise.
The All-Star Game is still a lot of fun, and I always like being around
the other guys."

James will represent the Heat for the first time, and will be
participating in his seventh All-Star Game. He's currently third in the
league in scoring (25.9) and 12th in assists (7.2).

D-Wade, also repping the Heat, is an All-Star for the seventh time. He's averaging 25.1 per night.
Both Rose (Chicago) and Stoudemire (New York) are starting for the
first time. Stoudemire has been there six previous times though, but
this will be his first as a New York Knick.

"Representing New York at the NBA All-Star Game is a huge honor for
me," Stoudemire said. "If it wasn't for the support of the most loyal
fans in the world, I wouldn't be in this position today."

Rose earned his second All-Star selection and first career start.
He's single-handedly carried the Bulls through injuries to Carlos
Boozer and Joakim Noah, and has Chicago running away with the Central
Division.
The NBA's 60th All-Star Game is being broadcast live Feb. 20 from Staples Center in Los

Ray Allen scored a game high 18 points while Paul Pierce added 17
more as the Boston Celtics out lasted the Portland Trail Blazers at the
Rose Garden Thursday night as they would get the win by a score of
88-78. LaMarcus Aldridge racked up a double-double for the injury
depleted team from Portland as he knocked down 17 points and grabbed 16
boards in the loss. The contest was the first of a four game West Coast
swing for the Celtics which will include a rematch of last season’s NBA
Finals on Sunday as the club travels to the Staples Center to take on
the Lakers.

Neither team was an offensive juggernaught in this game but the
Celtics were just a tad better than the Blazers in each of the
contest’s four quarters. Marquis Daniels hit a pair at the line with
1:29 left on the clock in the first and that would be good enough to
give Boston a 21-18 advantage at the end of the period. Portland would
grab the lead with 3:29 left in the second when the veteran point guard
Andre Miller drove the lane putting the ball up and in and making it a
34-33 affair. The Celtics though would have momentum on their side down
the stretch and would enter the locker room as the game reached the
half on top 41-37.

Boston looked like they were ready to take over the proceedings with
3:23 remaining in the third as Allen had a lay up giving his team the
upper hand at 62-52. The Blazers would reduce their deficit by the end
of the period and trailed at the end of the period 64-58. Portland
could never get closer to their opponents than being five points down
in the final 12 minutes and the Celtics would begin their road trip
with a victory.

LaMarcus Aldridge recorded a double-double with 17 points, 16
boards, 2 steals, 1 assist and 1 block while Miller added 14 points, 7
assists, 5 rebounds and 1 steal. Wesley Matthews scored 12 points, 7
rebounds, 2 steals and 1 assist while Rudy Fernandez came off the bench
and had 11 points, 5 assists, 3 rebounds and 3 steals, Boston improves
to 35-10 and will play Friday night in Phoenix as the face the Suns
while Portland now sits at 25-22 and are off until Tuesday when they
will host the San Antonio Spurs.

Statement from the Titans: “We
will be forever appreciative of Jeff Fisher’s leadership and
accomplishments through his time with our franchise. We reached some of
our greatest heights and experienced some unforgettable moments during
his tenure.

“After the season was complete, we had numerous discussions on the
direction of the team and were pleased that we were moving forward with
Jeff at the helm. Since that time, it became evident that consensus was
increasingly hard to find and reality wasn’t matching the vision we
discussed. It is unfortunate that this decision is coming at this
juncture, but we believe that we have reached the point where change is
in the best interest of both parties.

“We will start the head coaching search tomorrow. We expect to talk
to a broad and diverse group of candidates. We are confident the
coaching pool still has a number of quality candidates that can lead
our football team.”

Statement from Jeff Fisher: “I
want to thank Mr. Adams and the organization for a special 17 years. I
can’t thank the fans enough for the support they showed us through the
years; it has been a tremendous experience. We all did our very best
and I think I can look back with fond memories and be very proud of
what we accomplished. I want to wish the organization, the current
players and the fans nothing but the best in the future.”

Johannesburg, January 28,2011:Former South African President Nelson
Mandela is spending a second night in a hospital under medical
supervision, amid growing concerns over his health.

The president’s office said Mr Mandela, aged 92, was undergoing
“specialised” tests in Johannes burg and “there is no need to
panic”.Friends and family visited Mr Mandela on Thursday.

Security was tight outside the hospital and police were called to control traffic as a scrum of journalists grew.
Journalists have also gathered outside Mr Mandela’s home in Houghton, near Johannesburg.

In a statement on Thursday, the South African presidency said it
wanted to “assure the nation and the world that the former president is
in high spirit”.

“Dr Mandela suffers from ailment common to people of his age, and
conditions that have developed over years. We may recall that he has
suffered from tuberculosis whilst on Robben Island and has had previous
respiratory infections.”

President Jacob Zuma earlier said Mr Mandela had flown from Cape
Town to Johannesburg and had gone to the Milpark Hospital on Wednesday
for a check-up.

Mr Zuma, speaking from Davos in Switzerland where he has been
attending the World Economic Forum, said: “Given his age he has been
taken into a hospital for a check-up. I’m sure check-ups are more
frequent than when he was a healthy young man.”

Children at a local school have hung messages of support outside the Milpark Hospital.

Word has quickly spread that Mr Mandela is in hospital, with US
President Barack Obama adding his voice and wishes for a speedy
recovery.

In 2007, Jaziri was deported from Canada to Tunisia for lying on his refugee application
about jail time he served in France years earlier. His supporters said
Canadian officials targeted him for his Islamic fundamentalism,
according to news reports in Canada.

As imam of the Al-Qods mosque in Montreal, Jaziri was well-known for being outspoken on behalf of Sharia, a strict form of Islamic law, including his denunciation of homosexuality.
News
reports also said he was a notable figure on issues related to
reasonable accommodation, which in Canada refers to the debate over
whether anti-discrimination laws require the government, schools,
businesses and others to change certain practices to honor minorities’
cultural and religious beliefs.

Underscoring
yet again that border control is a national security issue, obscured as
it is by spurious charges of "racism." "Iranian Book Celebrating
Suicide Bombers Found in Arizona Desert," by William La Jeunesse for FoxNews.com, January 27 (thanks to Anne Crockett):

EXCLUSIVE: A book celebrating suicide bombers has been
found in the Arizona desert just north of the U.S.- Mexican border,
authorities tell Fox News.

The book, "In Memory of Our Martyrs," was spotted Tuesday by a U.S.
Border Patrol agent out of the Casa Grande substation who was
patrolling a route known for smuggling illegal immigrants and drugs.

Published in Iran, it consists of short biographies of Islamic
suicide bombers and other Islamic militants who died carrying out
attacks.

According to internal U.S. Customs and Border Protection documents,
"The book also includes letters from suicide attackers to their
families, as well as some of their last wills and testaments." Each
biographical page contains "the terrorist's name, date of death, and
how they died."...
Statements from U.S. officials, including FBI director Robert
Mueller, have raised serious concerns in recent years over "OTMs" -- or
illegal immigrants other than Mexicans -- who have crossed the
southwest border at alarming rates.

Mueller testified before the House Appropriations Committee in March
2005 that "there are individuals from countries with known Al Qaeda
connections who are changing their Islamic surnames to
Hispanic-sounding names and obtaining false Hispanic identities,
learning to speak Spanish and pretending to be Hispanic."

Just last year, the Department of Homeland Security had in custody
thousands of detainees from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan,
Saudi Arabia and Yemen. U.S. Border Patrol statistics indicate that
there were 108,025 OTMs detained in 2006, compared to 165,178 in 2005
and 44,614 in 2004.

Authorities would not release a picture of the book to Fox News, or
reveal how long they believe it was lying in the desert. Immigration
officials have previously discovered items along the U.S.-Mexico border
from Middle Eastern origin, including Iranian currency in Zapata,
Texas, and a jacket found in Jim Hogg County, Texas, that was covered
in patches including an Arabic military badge that illustrates an airplane flying into a tower.

This court’s decision is based on the following and only on the following:
(1) what it means to be a resident for election purposes was clearly
established long ago, and Illinois law has been consistent on the
matter since at least the 19th Century; (2) the novel standard adopted
by the appellate court majority is without any foundation in Illinois
law; (3) the Board’s factual findings were not against the manifest
weight of the evidence; and (4) the Board’s decision was not clearly
erroneous.

More on the now-reversed Appellate Court decision here.
Two Justices concurred in the judgment, but opined that the law was not
as clear as the majority said it was, and that it was therefore “unfair
of the majority to state that the appellate court majority ‘toss[ed]
out 150 years of settled residency law,’ adopted a ‘previously
unheard-of test for residency,’ or was engaged in a ‘mysterious’
analysis.”
Thanks to commenter Morbo for the pointer.

See what happens when you’re not too psyched out by fear?
CAIRO (AP) — Thousands of Egyptian anti-government protesters
clashed Friday with police in Cairo, who fired rubber bullets into the
crowds and used tear gas and water cannons to disperse them. It was a
major escalation in what was already the biggest challenge to President
Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year-rule.
Police also used water cannons against Egypt’s pro-democracy leader
Mohamed ElBaradei and his supporters as they joined the latest wave of
protests after noon prayers. Police also used batons to beat some of
ElBaradei’s supporters, who surrounded him to protect him.
A soaking wet ElBaradei was trapped inside a mosque nearly an hour
after him and his supporters were water cannoned. Hundreds of riot
police laid siege to the mosque, firing tear gas in the streets
surrounding it so no one could leave. The tear gas canisters set
several cars ablaze outside the mosque. Several people fainted and
suffered burns.
Large groups of protesters, in the thousands, were gathered at at
least six venues in Cairo, a city of about 18 million people. They are
demanding Mubarak’s ouster.

There were smaller protests in Assiut south of Cairo and al-Arish in
the Sinai peninsula. Regional television stations were reporting
clashes between thousands of demonstrators and police in the
Mediterranean port city of Alexandria and Minya south of Cairo.

At the upscale Mohandiseen district, at least 10,000 of people were
marching toward the city center chanting “down, down with Mubarak.” The
crowd later swelled to about 20,000 as they made their way through
residential areas. Residents looking on from apartment block windows
waved at them and whistled in support. Others waved the red, white and
black Egyptian flags.

At Ramsis square in the heart of the city, thousands of protesters
clashed with police as they left the al-Nur mosque after prayers.
Police used tear gas and rubber bullets and some of the tear gas was
fired inside the mosque where women were taking refuge.
Clusters of riot police with helmets and shields were stationed
around the city, at the entrances to bridges across the Nile and other
key intersections.

Near the city’s main Tahrir Square downtown, hundreds of riot police
clustered together and moved in, anticipating the arrival of a large
crowd of protesters. A short while later, thousands of protesters
marched across a bridge over the Nile and moved toward the square,
where police began firing tear gas into the crowds.

Internet and cell-phone services were disrupted across Egypt
starting overnight and throughout the day as authorities used extreme
measures to hamper protesters from organizing the mass rallies called
after Friday prayers.

Mubarak is Washington’s closest Arab ally, but Washington has
signaled that he no longer enjoys its full backing, publicly counseling
him to introduce reform and refrain from using violence against the
protesters. He has not been seen publicly or heard from since the
protests began Tuesday.

Friday’s demonstrations were energized by the return of Nobel Peace
laureate ElBaradei on Thursday night, when he said he was ready to lead
the opposition toward a regime change. They also got a boost from the
endorsement of the country’s biggest opposition group, the Islamic
fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

TRENTON,
N.J. (AP) — Some New Jersey schools scrambled to close early Wednesday
as yet another winter storm passed over the state, hitting many areas
earlier and harder than expected.

The
New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway both had lanes in each
direction that were virtually impassable by late morning as snow and
slush accumulated.

And that was just the first round of a
storm expected to come in multiple waves, with snow tapering off to
rain in the afternoon, then turning into an even more vigorous snow by
evening.

Some parts of central New Jersey had more than 4 inches of snow by midmorning.
In the state's Philadelphia suburbs, the snow gave way to rain around midday.

Valerie
Meola, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said the forecast snow
totals were increased Wednesday morning as the storm got off to a
stronger start than expected.

One band stretching from
just outside Wilmington, Del., nearly to New York City, was expected to
get over 9 inches by the time the storm ended. Winter storm warnings
were put in place until 4 a.m. Thursday.

NJ Transit said buses across the state were delayed by 15 to 45 minutes late in the morning.
There were also delays at Newark Liberty International Airport.

This
has been speculated on for months by both pro- and anti- gun
supporters. Now we have what appears to be actual evidence that drug
cartels are getting assault weapons in quantity from the US. The guns
were bought from gun stores in Arizona. Authorities say one defendant,
a straw buyer for a cartel, bought 38 AK-47 type rifles in about a
month, lying that they were for his personal use

The
arrests and seizures are proof that Arizona has become an iron highway
for guns headed south of the border, according to federal authorities,
who say they don’t know how many weapons are being smuggled into Mexico
every day.

Yet Arizona is also subject to some of
the worst drug violence in the country. BTW, all the defendants are US
citizens or legal residents.
I would say this is a big problem. And I’m agnostic about guns.

As if it was a thinly hidden message to President Obama, today the
Congressional Budget Office raised its projection for the United States
budget deficit in the present fiscal year:

For 2011, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that if current laws remain unchanged, the federal budget will show a deficit of close to $1.5 trillion,
or 9.8 percent of GDP. The deficits in CBO's baseline projections drop
markedly over the next few years as a share of output and average 3.1
percent of GDP from 2014 to 2021. Those projections, however, are
based on the assumption that tax and spending policies unfold as
specified in current law. Consequently, they understate the budget
deficits that would occur if many policies currently in place were
continued, rather than allowed to expire as scheduled under current law.

In
other words the CBO is saying, this projection says that things are
going to get better after this year, but if the government doesn't get
off its hind quarters and do something about the deficit, this country
will be in very deep do-do.

When President Obama announced last night that “this is our
generation’s Sputnik moment” not only was the metaphor clumsy, but it
was misdirected. If he was trying to say that its time for the nation
to understand that we are in a crisis and we must unite behind a common
goal, that was correct, but that goal must be to cut government
spending and return the United States to fiscal health.

But that was not the President's message last night. He tried to
persuade the American people that government should be the mechanism
for job creation and that economic recovery is dependent on more
government spending which we do not have. Evidently the president
still believes in magic, that you can maintain record-high spending
levels and pay down the debt at the same time.

Based on the continuing lousy deficit numbers, if drastic steps are not
taken soon the US will fall into the abyss of financial ruin.

WASHINGTON — The US budget deficit will hit a record-breaking 1.5
trillion this year, the Congressional Budget Office projected Wednesday,
thanks in part to a recent tax cut deal.

Constrained revenues and
increased spending to revive the economy will push the deficit to a
whopping 9.8 percent of gross domestic product this year, according to
the forecast.

The CBO, which is considered a bipartisan
scorekeeper in the hotly contested debate over US debt, said an expected
uptick in tax revenues as the economy improves would not fully
materialize.

"The recovery now under way might be expected to
lessen the budget imbalance in 2011 by increasing tax revenues and
decreasing spending for certain income-support programs, such as
unemployment compensation," it said.

"However, revenue growth will
be restrained by the slow and tentative pace of the recovery and by the
2010 tax act."

In December President Barack Obama signed into law
a cross-party deal that extended tax cuts passed by former president
George W. Bush along with unemployment benefits.

With an aging
population taking more in benefits and contributing less to revenues,
the cumulative deficit is expected to rise to $12 trillion between 2012
and 2021, or 97 percent of annual GDP.

By Warner Huston
I sat through President Obama's 2011 State of the Union Address last
night. During the event I live Tweeted the whole thing (You can read
that all at http://twitter.com/#!/warnerthuston) and ended up with an empty feeling and a headache.
Obama's address was long on calls for spending, filled with bromides,
and weighted with jaw, jaw but pretty short on substance. In fact, it
seemed like his 12 new spending ideas and his patriotic vagaries was
simply his first step onto the 2012 campaign trail as opposed to a
serious address to the nation.

Obama fittingly began his address citing John Boehner, the new
Speaker of the House, and memorializing the wounded Congresswoman
Gabrielle Giffords. He then said that we had a "robust" debate in our
politics and averred that it was one thing for the parties to sit
together that night but it depended on what they all do "tomorrow" and
he used that point to plead for moving forward with more
bi-partisanship.

Tellingly, even as Obama has paid lip service to bipartisanship for
three years, when he became president neither he nor his party made any
moves to implement any bipartisanship. In fact, when Democrat Nancy
Pelosi was Speaker of the House she never met with any Republicans on
anything. This whole claim or bipartisanship is simply a farce on
Obama's part and Obama continued that farce in the SOTU speech.
Obama went on to claim that the stock market had "come roaring back,"
and that the economy is growing again. He intimated that the Internet
was one of the engines of this growing economy, yet he didn't seem to
remember to mention that his own Federal Communications Commission is
well on the road to regulating the Internet to death and stifling that
powerful engine.

One thing Obama had right early in the speech was when he noted that
despite our bad economic times, the U.S. is still the largest, most
powerful economy in the world. We have a tendency to imagine that it has
all fallen apart, but the truth is we are still the number one economy
in the world. Despite our troubles, we should remember this.

Obama waxed enthusiastic over our "freedom" and our get-it-done
nature, he praised our entrepreneurialism and free enterprise, but here
is where he first began to go off the rails. We are in a "Sputnik"
moment, he claimed, and the only way to insure that we stay on top is
for government "investment" in research and development.

"Investment" is Obama's byword for spending and from here Obama began
rolling out all sorts of areas we need to "invest" in. This is typical
Big Governmentism and just more over liberal spending.

Obama laid out his ideas to "invest" in absurd boondoggles like high
speed rail and high speed Internet for "93% of America." High speed rail
is certainly a boondoggle. After all, few municipal rail systems in
America make money. Almost all of them lose millions of tax dollars
every year. And the cost of putting in high speed Internet in the most
remote areas is so cost prohibitive that it would make the whole system
too costly. Billions spent in such areas to serve so few people is not
sensible.

Obama also wanted to "reinvent our energy policy." Yet his entire
presidency has been used to quash our energy sectors. Gas, Coal, Oil,
Nuclear, all these areas have come in for punishment under the Obama
regime. And even as he claims we should "invest" in green energy he
never answers to the fact that so-called green energy technologies
cannot fulfill even a fraction of our energy needs.
The president then went on to plead for more money for education.
Missing from his assessment of American education was any sense that the
biggest impediment to our kid's education is teachers unions. He called
for people to serve the nation as teachers and demanded we “fix” our
educational system.

Again, he misleads here. He and his party are responsible for
eliminating a program that was working well to help disadvantaged kids
get a better education. Right there in Washington D.C. Democrats have
torpedoed a school voucher program that was generating excellent
results.

But, you see, the unions were against this successful program and
that is why Obama’s wonderful, soaring rhetoric in defense of our kids
was empty talk. When it comes to choosing between kids and unions, Obama
and the Democrats choose unions.

Next Obama called for more people to get a college education. "We
will once again have the highest number of college graduates in the
world," Obama said.

Unfortunately, we've dumbed down our curriculum so badly that a
degree isn't worth the paper it’s printed on. And our lower education
is so bad that many colleges have to put their young first year students
through remedial classes just to get up to speed to start college.

None of this is because of a lack of money.

Obama then gave us whiplash with an about face. He careened from
asking for all sorts of vague new spending to claiming that we have to
cut the budget and become fiscally responsible. But after 10 minutes or
more of talking cuts he warned that no cuts should be made in his
favorite programs.

He called for a federal spending freeze at current levels to last for
the next five years. Naturally, this is a trap to catch Republicans and
not a serious proposal. After all, if we freeze everything as it is
that means cutting can occur because it is frozen in place!
Republicans want to eliminate programs and spending, not freeze them in
place.
In the end, Obama’s confusing message was that we need new spending,
we need to cut spending, but we cannot cut his favored programs. In
other words, liberal status quo.

The most interesting thing about his speech, though was that it was
pretty empty of specifics. He had a lot of general ideas, a lot of
bromides, and a ton of vague statements, sure, but he asked for no
specific amounts of money, he did not offer to cut any specific programs
and he did not announce any concrete programs of his own.

In fact, the whole speech was reminiscent of his 2008 campaign, a lot
of generalizations and yes-we-cans but not much on specifics. This is
what made it seem clear that this speech was his first step back on the
campaign trail and will set the tone for his initial campaign for
reelection in 2012.

Twitter confirmed Tuesday evening that its
microblogging site has been shuttered by Egyptian authorities. This came
hours after widespread reports that access had been cut off, as
Egyptians took to the streets in what many hope and some fear would be a
sequel to the revolution in Tunisia last week. The day’s speculation
that the Mubarak administration might have pulled the plug on Twitter
underscored the power of the site and other social networks as tools to
both coordinate and disperse news of a citizen uprising.
The
rest is here:Amid Street
Protests, Twitter Shuttered in Egypt

“An Ohio mother of two was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on three years probation after sending her kids to a school district in which they did not live. Kelley Williams-Bolar was sentenced by Judge Patricia Cosgrove on Tuesday and will begin serving her sentence immediately. The jury deliberated for seven hours and the courtroom was packed as the sentence was handed down. She was convicted on two counts of tampering with court records after registering her two girls as living with Williams Bolar’s father when they actually lived with her. The family lived in the housing projects in Akron, Ohio, and the father’s address was in nearby Copley Township. Additionally, Williams-Bolar’s father, Edward L. Williams, was charged with a fourth-degree felony of grand theft, in which he and his daughter are charged with defrauding the school system for two years of educational services for their girls. The court determined that sending their children to the wrong school was worth $30,500 in tuition. - Dr. Boyce Watkins

As punishment for doing everything in her power to keep her children educated and safe in a public education environment that allows for $30k “tuition” discrepancies to form between districts, Ms. Williams-Bolar, a single mother with no previous criminal record, has been made a felon by Ohio judge Patricia Cosgrove. In addition to jail time, a large fine and probation, Ms. Williams-Bolar’s felony conviction has also robbed her of her future.

“‘Because of the felony conviction, you will not be allowed to get your teaching degree under Ohio law as it stands today. The court’s taking into consideration that is also a punishment that you will have to serve.” – Judge Patricia Cosgrove

Although Ms. Williams-Bolar had nearly completed her education to become a teacher, under Ohio law felons are not permitted to teach. This sentence has all but ensured that the dire social and economic circumstances which drove Ms. Williams-Bolar to de-fraud the school system in the first place will never change. She has been robbed of the opportunity to elevate her life and the lives of her family through her own hard work. Judge Cosgrove has essentially handed Ms. Williams-Bolar a life sentence for attempting to protect and enrich her children. In a time of overwhelming economic disadvantage for so many US citizens, are loving single mothers like Williams-Bolar truly the enemy our court system should be making examples of in this way?
Ms. Williams-Bolar’s attorneys are currently preparing for an appeal. Please sign this petition to let Ohio lawmakers and the judicial office of Patricia Cosgrove know that you do not feel that Kelley Williams-Bolar’s punishment appropriately fits her crime, and that you support a reduction of her sentence upon her appeal.

I’m hoping this story gains ground and even more attention so that hopefully we can get this appealed.

Wouldn’t it also be nice if those same celebrities who spend $100,00′s on jewelry and shenanigans, could help this woman with her legal fund??

The former heavyweight world champion boxer and his wife, Lakiha Spicer Tyson, welcomed a baby boy into the world yesterday (25.01.11).

A source close to the couple told RadarOnline.com: “Mike and Lakiha are very happy and everyone is doing great.”

The couple, who already have a two-year-old daughter Milan together, are yet to name their new arrival.

The happy news comes 18 months after the tragic death of Mike’s four-year-old daughter Exodus in a horrific accident in 2009 when a chord from a treadmill became wrapped around her neck. Mike and Lakiha, 32, married just 10 days after the ordeal.

Mike has been married twice before, to actress Robin Givens and Monica Turner and has five other children: Rayna, Amir, Mikey, Miguel and D'Mato, from his marriages and by ex-girlfriends.

The 44-year-old retired boxer – who became the youngest heavyweight champion of all time when he won his first title in 1986 – is thought to have earned over $300 million throughout his in-ring career, but in May last year claimed he was broke but happy with his position in life.

He said: "I'm totally destitute and broke. But I have an awesome life, I have an awesome wife who cares about me. I'm totally broke. I had a lot of fun. It just happened.

"I don't deserve to have the wife that I have; I don't deserve the kids that I have, but I do, and I'm very grateful."

And the money woes just keep on coming for Nasir. Deets on how the feds just hit the legendary rapper with a new $6.46 million past due tax bill when you read on....

According to Yo Raps, Nas' troubles really started back in '09 in his home area of New York:

The trouble started in October of 2009 in New York. The IRS filed a $2,584,236 lien against the Illmatic rapper behind owed taxes, listing the address of his Eagles Landing property in Georgia, and then followed it up a few months later in February of 2010 with a second lien for $3,365,671. Then earlier this month, the government agency filed a lien with the New York City Register of Deeds for $514,298, bringing his grand total to just over $6.46 million.

Even the condo association of his Queens condo filed against him last year behind $3,860 worth of fees that he has yet to pay including a $420 monthly assessment, which according to them; he hasn’t paid since January 2010.

Damn homie. I know he'd trade those $50K/month payments he now doesn't have to pay Kelis over THIS ish any day....

A recap of his debts:

The IRS filed a $514,298 lien Jan. 10 with the New York City Register of Deeds.The IRS filed a $3,365,671lien Feb. 3, 2010, in New York.The IRS filed a $2,584,236 lien Oct. 16, 2009, in New York.

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